''Anatoma australis'', commonly known as the southern slit shell, is a

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of small

sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

, a marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

micromollusc A micromollusc is a shelled mollusc which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine molluscs, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater molluscs also ...

in the

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Anatomidae Anatomidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda Vetigastropoda is a major taxonomic group of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that form a very ancient lineage. Taxonomically the Vetig ...

.WoRMS (2012). ''Anatoma australis'' (Hedley, 1903). Accessed through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492982 on 2013-02-16

Description

The length of the shell reaches 3 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off

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, Australia and off

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References

* Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962 . ''A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales''. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0. * Wilson, B., 1993. ''Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods''. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA * Jansen, P., 1999 .T''he Australian Scissurellidae''. Conchiglia, 31(291):47-55. * Geiger D.L. (2012) ''Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae.'' pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.

External links

Encyclopedia of Life

World Register of Marine Species
Anatoma Gastropods described in 1903 {{Anatomidae-stub